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(not satire – it’s Norman Bettison)
‘Sir’ Norman Bettison – who has been accused by the families of the Hillsborough victims of being part of a black propaganda campaign by South Yorkshire Police to blame the fans for the tragedy – unbelievably years later called for health and safety legislation to be reduced saying he believed health and safety legislation was ‘hindering’ the work of police officers.
Bettison made the remarkable call for what he called an end to the ‘health and safety Taliban’ in an article for the Telegraph in 2007 – 18 years after the Hillsborough tragedy which happened as a direct result of a serious lack of health and safety at the stadium as well as poor policing.
This is not the first time Bettison has been proven to be an idiot. In 2008, he ordered police staff to stop fighting crime in order to monitor an online enyclopaedia to stop users posting rude comments about him.
As Trevor Hicks, who lost two daughters in the tragedy and is chair of the families support group, said – “If he is anything of a man, he will stand down and scurry up a drainpipe somewhere.”
Bettison – do us all a favour – just go away.
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His resignation isn’t good enough. If the accusations are true, he should face charges,
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Surely charges of perverting the course of justice and malfeasance in public office should be brought against the people who sought to cover the horrible truth about Hillsborough, at the very least? The families of the dead deserve some measure of justice, as well as belated admissions and a grudging apology wrung from the establishment after 23 years of stubborn refusal to acknowledge any culpability.
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If that greedy, vain and mendacious creep is permitted to resign, he will still have his pension.
He should be summarily dismissed and denied any pension from the police.
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Sir Norman Bettison = Brattiness in moron.
Sir Norman George Bettison = I’m a boring, rottenness ogre, I’m sternest gorgonian bore.
Chief Constable Sir Norman George Bettison =
I’m obscene, abhorrent, clattering goofiness.
I’m the fancier beggar’s boneless contortion.
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Downloaded from The Hillsborough Family Support Group website http://www.hfsg.co.uk
In the early part of 1989 a young copper was called out at night to a park in Sheffield. Masked men appeared and put a gun to his head. The young copper nearly died of fright. The men removed their masks and revealed themselves. They were police officers. It was all a sort of joke.
Unfortunately, the young copper’s father failed to see the joke. He kicked up a stink. And eventually the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, became involved. He demanded that heads should roll so the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sacked the officers involved and moved their boss, Chief Superintendent Brian Mole, to Bradford.
Certain officers in South Yorkshire were a bit miffed about this and when a new man came in to take charge, they gave him very little co-operation. The new man was Chief Superintendent Duckenfield and one of his first tasks was the policing of a semi-final game at Hillsborough on the 15th of April 1989.
And that is why Hillsborough happened – because the man in charge got little help from his men. They did not want 96 people to die. But they wanted the new man to make a mess of things. And he did.
I know this. I can’t prove it, but I know it. The Hillsborough families know it. And that, above all, explains their anger, their sense of grievance.
The police at Hillsborough ordered a gate to be opened and thousands walked through it and 96 of them died. The man in charge lied immediately afterwards. He said the fans had smashed down the gate. There was a video recording of the police themselves opening that gate. And that night, somebody walked into Sheffield Wednesday control room and stole what he thought was the video of the police opening that gate.
The control room was locked and alarmed. There were police all over the ground. Mrs. Thatcher was arriving in the morning. Ninety six people had died. Yet somebody was allowed to walk in and steal evidence. Who investigated this theft ? The South Yorkshire Police themselves. The thief, of course, was never found. And that, too, explains the anger of the Hillsborough families.
Whilst the families were still identifying their loved ones, four South Yorkshire police officers took it in turns to lie to the press about fans urinating on, and stealing from, the dead. As Joan Tootle said to me (Joan lives just around the corner), “They put out kids in their graves. Did they have to spit on them as well ?”
This too explains the anger of the Hillsborough Families.
The police then changed their statements. Unbelievable, isn’t it ? If we could all change our statements at will, there would be nobody in prison. Yet the police changed theirs and Lord Justice Stuart-Smith finds this quite acceptable. Police officers, whose duty it is to establish truth, changing their statements at will. That too explains the anger of the Hillsborough Families.
Where is Christ in all this ? For nine years the Hillsborough families have endured a slow crucifixion, so where is Christ in all this ? The Christ who went to the cross for Truth and Justice. The Christ who, in a fit of rage, drove the money-changers out of the temple. The Christ who stood up for the exploited and the oppressed.
The official Hillsborough Family Support group website
http://www.hfsg.co.uk
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